Wait… Purple isn’t a real colour?!
Think purple is real? Think again. Discover the bizarre truth behind why purple doesn’t actually exist (yup, seriously).
Okay, buckle up, because what you’re about to read might just blow your mind wide open.
Purple isn’t a real colour. Yup. You read that right.
Wait… how? You’ve seen it, you’ve worn it, you’ve probably argued with someone over whether it’s more “plum” or “lavender”.
The cosmic truth is purple doesn’t exist in the natural spectrum of light. In fact, it’s not even in the rainbow.
We’re not talking about that one time you tried to draw it with crayons as a kid. We mean scientifically, physically, mind-bendingly nonexistent.
Let’s break it down.
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Think of the colours of the rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet. All of them have their own wavelengths of light.
They’re like the VIPS of visible light, each one rolling solo. Purple though? Not even on the guest list.
Violet is real. Violet has its own wavelength, but purple is just violet’s illusionist cousin.
So what’s purple then? Here’s the trippy part – purple is your brain making stuff up.
When your eyes see red and blue light at the same time, your brain panics. It goes, “Uh… okay… let’s just call this purple!”
Then boom, you see a colour that doesn’t exist on the light spectrum.
When this fact hit social media, people went down the rabbit hole faster than Alice in Wonderland.
One Reddit user summed it up perfectly: “There’s no single wavelength of light that gives you purple. It’s your eyes being tricked by red and blue light happening at once.”
While another user drove it home: “Violet is real. Purple is a beautiful lie.”
So yes, purple looks real. It feels real. We’ve even made it a royal colour.
In the world of physics and light, though, it’s just red and blue, holding hands and tricking your brain.
Still, just because it isn’t “real” doesn’t mean it isn’t fabulous.
After all, we live for a good illusion, right?
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